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This activity involves playing with a parachute to make discoveries about air. It is always a favorite activity as most children enjoy hiding under the parachute but limit the number who can hide at the same time. After they play with the parachute, ...
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This activity is for observing shadows and how they change. Take children outside on a sunny day and ask them to look at the ground next to where they are standing to see what they can see. As soon as someone notices his or her shadow, introduce the ...
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This activity is for observing that different objects make shadows of different shapes and sizes. Ask students to find the object that is making a shadow and to describe and compare the object with its shadow. When checking the same shadow an hour la...
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This activity focuses on discovering that on cloudy days, there may not be enough sunlight to cause shadows. If the clouds are intermittent, the shadows may come and go, but on an overcast day there may be no shadows at all. Encourage children to con...
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What Is the Weather Like Today?
This activity focuses on observing and naming different kinds of weather. In the activity, children go outside to determine the weather. Back inside the classroom, their findings are recorded on a weather chart. The typical weather chart has only one...
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The focus of this activity is on helping children begin to see that tracks and traces can tell stories about things that have not been seen. Let children describe the different tracks they made in the snow, encouraging them to discuss how each of the...
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This activity focuses on exploring the properties of snow and how snow can change into liquid water. Have the children pack snow into plastic cups so the cups are full of snow. Challenge children to try to determine how many cups of snow it takes to ...
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This activity is about discovering how coats keep things warm and uses water bottles to show what coats do for us. One bottle is wrapped in a cloth or newspaper coat and the other bottle is left as is. Children will see that the wrapped bottle kept ...
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This activity is for exploring magnetic and nonmagnetic objects. Give each child identical magnets and ask them to test some of the objects provided to find out which ones are attracted to magnets. This should help students to understand what the obj...
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This activity focuses on the use of magnets and finding magnetic items in the classroom. Give each child a magnet and have them go around the room and find objects that are attracted by their magnet. Activity may be extended outside to discover which...
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Magnetic Force Through Objects
This activity focuses on exploring the magnetic force through objects by placing magnets in a small box. Slowly move the box about a half-inch above a pile of paper clips and watch the paper clips attach to the bottom of the box. This activity could ...
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This activity uses a magnet to push another magnet through a maze. Discuss how a magnet can pull or push another magnet and give each child a “Magnet Maze” sheet and two magnets. Briefly demonstrate using one magnet to push another through the ma...
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The Magnet Contest: Which Magnet is Stronger?
This activity is for testing the strength of different magnets. Use a pile of paper clips for children to explore with. As they begin picking up paper clips with their magnets, they will see that some magnets can pick up more than others. Encourage c...
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This activity is about collecting rocks. Take the children on a rock hunt and ask them to select three rocks to put in their bags. Once back inside, have each child choose one rock to show to the others and describe what they like about the rock. As ...
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This activity is about exploring rocks. Put out a box of rocks and let children explore, observe, and compare rocks, matching them by shape, size, and color. Encourage children to use magnifiers as they observe. A materials list, internet resources, ...